Birch
noun
A type of tree with light colored bark.
She admired the white bark of the birch tree in the forest.
Often appears as...
- birch tree
- birch bark
noun
The hard, pale wood of this tree.
He built a bookshelf from birch wood.
Often appears as...
- birch wood
- birch plywood
noun
A bundle of twigs or a rod made from this tree, used for whipping.
In the past, some schools used a birch for punishment.
Often appears as...
- the birch
- birch rod
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
noun
A type of tree with light colored bark.
She admired the white bark of the birch tree in the forest.
Often appears as...
- birch tree
- birch bark
noun
The hard, pale wood of this tree.
He built a bookshelf from birch wood.
Often appears as...
- birch wood
- birch plywood
noun
A bundle of twigs or a rod made from this tree, used for whipping.
In the past, some schools used a birch for punishment.
Often appears as...
- the birch
- birch rod
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Light Bark
Birch trees have a distinctive light, often white or silvery, bark.
The birch's light bark makes it easy to identify in the forest.
Pro Tip 2/3Forest Icon
Birch trees are common in temperate forests, featured in poetry and art.
The painting captured the serene beauty of the birch forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Cold Climate
Birch is associated with colder climates and can withstand harsh winters.
After moving north, she planted a birch in her snowy garden.
Pro Tip 1/3Light Bark
Birch trees have a distinctive light, often white or silvery, bark.
The birch's light bark makes it easy to identify in the forest.
Pro Tip 2/3Forest Icon
Birch trees are common in temperate forests, featured in poetry and art.
The painting captured the serene beauty of the birch forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Cold Climate
Birch is associated with colder climates and can withstand harsh winters.
After moving north, she planted a birch in her snowy garden.
Pro Tip 1/3Light Bark
Birch trees have a distinctive light, often white or silvery, bark.
The birch's light bark makes it easy to identify in the forest.
Pro Tip 2/3Forest Icon
Birch trees are common in temperate forests, featured in poetry and art.
The painting captured the serene beauty of the birch forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Cold Climate
Birch is associated with colder climates and can withstand harsh winters.
After moving north, she planted a birch in her snowy garden.
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Channing Tatum Makes...
We've now reached what looks like a kind of narrow, dark hole of a cave. But I've seen a glimmer of light through it. And I'm thinking, actually, we don't need that much to get through. Even if it's that wide, we reach the end of it, we'll get through it. Let's make a little torch. CHANNING Yeah. We'll do it from that birch bark.
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The true story of 'true'...
and that's no coincidence. If we trace the roots back even farther, we find that both meanings derive from a common origin, where some of the earliest expressions of the concept of truth were associated with the uprightness of an oak, the steadiness of a silver birch,
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Building a Bench in the...
And without this spark, without this birch punk right here, easily we could not be here today. We'd be wiped out, extinct in this area of the Earth. Whatever created us and created the earth made it possible with tools like this growing right on the trees.
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Encountering a Deadly...
lurking in the undergrowth, as I discovered when I was out looking for firewood. This tree right here is a perfect one. See this bark? It's like paper, and it just peels off just like that. The bark of this birch tree is waterproof and flammable,
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6 ways mushrooms can...
We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.
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Winner Winner Raccoon...
a birch bark on tray tray David Canterbury goes all sort of nouvelle cuisine good man Jonny chefs what I've prepared for you today chefs yes is rotisserie raccoon haunch finished with a barbecue honey crumble you throw those on chip said
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Andrew Skurka: Trekking...
this black spruce and tego with the sponge of floor or these this is a giant tussock just brushy and nasty and then once you get above or outside of the forest oftentimes you end up in the brush so all there dwarf birch resin
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Iceland Is Growing New...
pressures that we put on there are other needs of forest biomass lumber lots of different things we started using exotic species because the native birch simply isn't productive
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How trees talk to each...
and as I suspected, silence. Cedar was in its own world. It was not connected into the web interlinking birch and fir. I was so excited,
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Ants VS Parent Bug PIPE...
search for edible birch seeds they travel along the twigs in convoy
Video examples
Channing Tatum Makes...
We've now reached what looks like a kind of narrow, dark hole of a cave. But I've seen a glimmer of light through it. And I'm thinking, actually, we don't need that much to get through. Even if it's that wide, we reach the end of it, we'll get through it. Let's make a little torch. CHANNING Yeah. We'll do it from that birch bark.
Video examples
The true story of 'true'...
and that's no coincidence. If we trace the roots back even farther, we find that both meanings derive from a common origin, where some of the earliest expressions of the concept of truth were associated with the uprightness of an oak, the steadiness of a silver birch,
Video examples
Building a Bench in the...
And without this spark, without this birch punk right here, easily we could not be here today. We'd be wiped out, extinct in this area of the Earth. Whatever created us and created the earth made it possible with tools like this growing right on the trees.
Video examples
Encountering a Deadly...
lurking in the undergrowth, as I discovered when I was out looking for firewood. This tree right here is a perfect one. See this bark? It's like paper, and it just peels off just like that. The bark of this birch tree is waterproof and flammable,
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.
Video examples
Winner Winner Raccoon...
a birch bark on tray tray David Canterbury goes all sort of nouvelle cuisine good man Jonny chefs what I've prepared for you today chefs yes is rotisserie raccoon haunch finished with a barbecue honey crumble you throw those on chip said
Video examples
Andrew Skurka: Trekking...
this black spruce and tego with the sponge of floor or these this is a giant tussock just brushy and nasty and then once you get above or outside of the forest oftentimes you end up in the brush so all there dwarf birch resin
Video examples
Iceland Is Growing New...
pressures that we put on there are other needs of forest biomass lumber lots of different things we started using exotic species because the native birch simply isn't productive
Video examples
How trees talk to each...
and as I suspected, silence. Cedar was in its own world. It was not connected into the web interlinking birch and fir. I was so excited,
Video examples
Ants VS Parent Bug PIPE...
search for edible birch seeds they travel along the twigs in convoy
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
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Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
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Geri Halliwell
British Musician
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
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Paul Muldoon
English Poet
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
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George Eliot
British Author
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
Quote examples
Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
Quote examples
Geri Halliwell
British Musician
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
Quote examples
Paul Muldoon
English Poet
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Quote examples
George Eliot
British Author
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
Quote examples
Gore Vidal
American Novelist
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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